For the people that know more about this stuff than me:
My graphics card (ATI Radeon) has been playing up. It sometimes shows crap over the screen when it starts up, but it usually goes away after a little while. So I decided I'd install the newer driver. Big msitake.
Installed, rebooted, crashed. Then I rebooted again and it worked, except the graphics were hideously slow (dragging windows would wipe down the screen in a way I haven't seen for 10 years). Next day, wouldn't boot at all, no matter what. It did boot into safe mode, but not safe mode with networking (which makes me suspect networking). I then rolled the system back to a previous configuration (and another one before that for good measure), but that didn't help. I've also pulled out and uninstalled drivers for the two network cards and installed an old graphics card, with no change.
So then I went back to the XP CD and ran a repair, except that doesn't boot either (BSOD), and now if I boot into safe mode it says "setup cannot run in safe mode", and shuts down.
I've now installed a new XP install in a different dir, and that's working fine, which to me rules out anything terrible with the hardware. Of course it'll be a PITA getting everything setup again, and I really want my old install back. I'm guessing it's a service in the old install that's at fault, but how do I find out what?
Any suggestions?
My graphics card (ATI Radeon) has been playing up. It sometimes shows crap over the screen when it starts up, but it usually goes away after a little while. So I decided I'd install the newer driver. Big msitake.
Installed, rebooted, crashed. Then I rebooted again and it worked, except the graphics were hideously slow (dragging windows would wipe down the screen in a way I haven't seen for 10 years). Next day, wouldn't boot at all, no matter what. It did boot into safe mode, but not safe mode with networking (which makes me suspect networking). I then rolled the system back to a previous configuration (and another one before that for good measure), but that didn't help. I've also pulled out and uninstalled drivers for the two network cards and installed an old graphics card, with no change.
So then I went back to the XP CD and ran a repair, except that doesn't boot either (BSOD), and now if I boot into safe mode it says "setup cannot run in safe mode", and shuts down.
I've now installed a new XP install in a different dir, and that's working fine, which to me rules out anything terrible with the hardware. Of course it'll be a PITA getting everything setup again, and I really want my old install back. I'm guessing it's a service in the old install that's at fault, but how do I find out what?
Any suggestions?
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